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Fyi, Apple Watches burn your skin, iMacs are crooked by fraction of a mm that hurts one's neck, people killed! from airtags, etc etc etc etc 

There is a cottage industry of free money grabbers and media attention creeps that make every product mysteriously break, crack, blow up or try to harm you. What these slimes have done is make most people believe very one of these stories you hear are just grifters look for the aforementioned. You see that with stories like this and dimwits like a previous poster claiming he wonders how many iPhones did this too!
Just fools and grifters harming consumers from getting recompense when an actual, and rare, problem arises.  

I believe this is all very complicated tax law and accountant related.  Apple provides dividend and share buybacks. Providing the money for that is taxed on average at X. But borrowing the money reduces the tax burden of that dividend and share buyback, we'll say, by half. When you factor in the yield paid to bond holders, half X + yield = less than the full tax of just using your cash on hand. This is the benefit of cost of borrowing money being VERY low. 

The other possibility is simply the cost of money being low, and it is VERY low. Apple gets to keep their cash/easily converted securities on hand while using the low interest rate/yield bond(debt) to continue to fund increasing operations. I'd liken it to this: you have a million dollars. You have a 500,000 dollar mortgage at 2% APR. Would you take half that million to pay off the debt (saving 2%) when the cash itself will equal a 3% return in savings?  

Clickbait book with "F you" from Tim Cook on same day as Musk tweets this. Gee, I'm sure the timing is coincidental.
Maybe Musk could have thrown in that Apple should donate all proceeds to DogeCoin. 

Give Musk credit for this, he plays the media game masterfully. 

Tablets have a more specific consumer circle than PCs. I'd expect Tablets would slow down after this previous big of a YoY jump. PCs will slow down too but maybe unlikely as much.

With a slowdown it is a game of each manufacturer trying to capture an outsized portion of the existing slowing sales number in order to keep revenue on a YoY growth pace.
Apple is always poised to do well in the Tablet market but there is less to grab. But that doesn't guarantee it for Apple.

PCs? No chance of Apple grabbing an outsized portion of the slowing market sales total without introducing bigger screen Pro level laptops using M1 that has benchmarks that are commensurate with impressive benchmarks of the 13" MBA and MBP.  
Chromebooks? Shouldn't even counted as PCs. Chromebooks are a limited PC like device that makes virtually no profit for manufacturers. Provided there are value adds and accessory sales to these manufacturers, yes they can make some profit. But IMHO Chromebook is a different category. 

Hagen said:

Beats said:

Elon is lying. Him and Tim have met before. Unless he means never met before about acquisition.

Back in April Cook also claimed they have never met or spoken before.

Moreso, Musk claimed he has never met Tim Cook. So the two parties involved in this have never met according to them. 

I'm an avid reader but too many quasi biographicals are tabloid gossip trash. Unfortunately it is these that make big splashes in corporate media(that plays to gossip trash) to get books sold.